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A customer sent you a NIS2 security questionnaire: how to answer honestly when your small business isn't in scope

It usually turns up with a contract renewal, or tucked into the purchasing terms of a customer much bigger than you. "Do you use multi-factor authentication? Do you test your backups? Who do we call i...

Cybersecurity

Oct 19, 2026

z80, Sebastien Schmets

Peppol in Odoo: what still goes wrong in Belgian small businesses, from customer records to supplier bills

Since 1 January 2026, a VAT-registered Belgian business invoicing another VAT-registered business in Belgium has had to send a structured e-invoice, which in practice means the Peppol network. Ten mon...

Odoo & ERP

Oct 16, 2026

z80, Sebastien Schmets

The right to disconnect in a Belgian SME: what the law requires from 20 workers, and how to make it hold when the boss emails at 10 pm

Tuesday, 10:40 pm. The owner is rereading a quote, spots a mistake and drops it into the team WhatsApp group with a quick "fix tomorrow". Nobody has to answer. Two people answer anyway, at 10:43 and 1...

Organisation & management

Oct 7, 2026

z80, Sebastien Schmets

IT hour pack or in-house hire: how a Belgian SME buys time without picking the wrong contract

The PC that dies at 4 p.m. on a Friday, the mail that will not send, the new hire still waiting for a Microsoft 365 account three days later: in a fifteen-person Belgian firm, IT often arrives in burs...

IT & automation

Oct 2, 2026

z80, Sebastien Schmets

A supplier emails a new IBAN: the checks a small business can put in place this week

A regular supplier writes to say they have switched banks, and attaches an invoice with the new account number. Same signature, same email thread. Your bookkeeper updates the vendor record and the pay...

Cybersecurity

Sep 28, 2026

z80, Sebastien Schmets

Odoo in Belgium: what an SME should check before signing

People call me just before they sign. An Odoo Online quote, a Gold partner on the directory, sometimes an integrator in Liège or Namur. The question is not “Odoo or not”. It is whether you asked the r...

Odoo & ERP

Sep 18, 2026

z80, Sebastien Schmets

Pomodoro for SME owners: keeping 25 minutes when the phone (and WhatsApp) never stop

You blocked an hour for the quote. At 9:12 a client pings WhatsApp. At 9:18 someone walks over with “just a minute” in the open office. At 9:25 the accountant. By 10:00 the quote has not moved a line....

Organisation & management

Sep 15, 2026

z80, Sebastien Schmets

Backups, accounts and updates: what an SME can lock down this week without buying a cybersecurity suite

People ask me which suite to buy. A name from a trade fair, a security operations centre, a shiny dashboard. For a fifteen-person firm, I start somewhere else. Three concrete moves this week — ones yo...

Cybersecurity

Sep 10, 2026

z80, Sebastien Schmets

If you do it twice, automate it: where an SME actually starts (invoices and reminders, not an RPA project)

The person who runs the office already has a tool. Odoo, WinBooks, Billit, sometimes still a workbook. They still copy-paste. Invoices go out. Peppol has handled that, since January 2026, between Belg...

IT & automation

Sep 4, 2026

z80, Sebastien Schmets

Still invoicing from Excel: what actually breaks for a Belgian SME (and how to leave it without throwing everything away)

Plenty of invoices around Liège still come out of Excel. One file for invoices, another for stock “because the first one is never current”, reminders in Outlook, and on the 5th someone copies the lot ...

Odoo & ERP

Sep 2, 2026